The winter and early-spring are long gone. I spent the recent colder months investigating planktonic life down on the docks in Newport, RI.
These were some of the bizarre creatures that I was able to see in only a few feet of water. My largest hindrance is the poor camera work.
These are arrow worms- they have their own phylum Chaetognatha.
These two are of a Cumacean shrimp
These are American eel elvers. The eyes glowed in the dark. Friends in Maine made a lot on money off these animals this past spring- up to $1,500lb. They sell to the Chinese who grow them and sell them to the Japanese who eat them like we eat hot dogs.
Black-eyed hydromedusa
As spring is radily turning into summer, my marine focus has changed from planktonic life to the operation of the aquarium on Third Beach that will open late-June. In the meantime, I did go far inland north to Berlin, New Hampshire; the state’s northernmost city. I climbed four mountains and explored along two river systems. Not much marine life, however along the Androscoggin and Dead Rivers, I did see five species of freshwater fish.
View overlooking Berlin, New Hampshire
Porcupine
Fuzzy image of hungry bear. I didn't linger
Incredibly, it was 25-degrees Fahrenheit one morning and the Presidential Mountains had tons on snow on them.
Brook trout. Androscoggin River. The fishermen who caught these told me they were brown trout.
Northern redbelly dace
Bridled shiner
Water boatman
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